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_wiven and It still left $1 per cent, as Ln NOBODY SATISFIED WITH CABINET’S “WAGE DECISION (Continued From First Page.) the Government itself, Here are the facts and the public ‘can draw its own conclusions as to relative re- sponsibility: Miners and operators came to Washington at the request of thé Government. Secretary Wil- son is charged by law with the task of mediation. He conforred with both sides and examined statistics and figure’ on costs ‘and wages. He con- eetved his function to be the making of a wage scale satisfactory to opera- tors and miners, ‘The cost of living board Increased 79.8 per cent. since 1913. But since that time there had been an increase in wages. So he subtracted the in- crease in wages which bad been mit his Wilson, resignation to the President in his state of health. | away from him. DISPUTE GARFIELD CLAIM. Some members of the Cabinet pro the power to enter into costs of pro- ductiOn on the subject of wages any more than he could tell the opcra- tors how much t6 pay for steel rails or other items in thoir cost list. This power he would have If the mines were taken over, bat not at present. Anyway, the Cabinet was powerless. They could do nothing but ¢tand bebind Dr. Garfield un~ jens they carried tho matter to the President. So Dr. Garfield has gone ahoad. And Secretary Wilson has ‘ with- drawn’ as mediator. . For he ‘was put in the postition of encouraging the necessary increase in wages to both operators and mjners to be- Garfield politely ‘told. the Cabinet they could accept his plan or sub- to President The Cabinet hesitated to jtake such an intricate controversy present All finally agreed that Dr. Garfield did have the power to fix the selling price of coal and that the Cabinet could not take it SOME MEMBERS OF CABINET tested that Dr, Garfield didn't hdve because the purchasing power of their dollars have diminished—when the public continues to charge the ALBERT THOMAS TO HEAD miner more for shoes, for grovertes, | WORLD LABOR BUREAU, for rent, for building materials, and | 2 aSEee all the other items that go into the| Frenchman Chosen Director Gen- household budget. eral Under the League The Government is confident it can | of Nations” break the strike, Miners admit this | Aegis, pe eee WASHINGTON might happen at the end of six or jqnomas, the conse abor leade seven weeks of stugeling to the point |of France, was selected day by the of exhaustion. But should the Gov- Mi Metab body of the International La bor Conference as the first director gen= rt erhment ase its power to enforce 81 Fos ar the Intemational Labor Odics| Mewpoint that ts admittedfy the re-|\aaer the League of Nations sult of differenees of opinion inside! Arthur Fontaine, of France, was ee- {ts own Cabinet and without the|tected as permanent ¢hairman of. the rantetion of the lend of the Gévern- | governing body ment, who is too ill to be asked to! take a decidvé stand & the dispute? That is the question, Miners and Operntors wil! resume negotiations As soon As the Presidesit or bis Cabi net disentangle the web, Rochenter-Syracane Ale Race Begins. 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Army Officers’ \\/, meet the high cost of living. OPERATORS DISPUTE THE FIG- URES OF WILSON. Along came the operators to point Ileve he had the power to negotiate | porations in the State paid nearly $33,006,000 taxes during the fiscal year, Paisae dacddan satedtey sae ie Binte comptrolier has annoureed, | is one guiding thought which is never for- The Dry Milk Nae tae Y gotten or disregarded, and that is, that. the 15 Park Row, New 18 @ $5,000,000 increase over igs | your. | out that Mr. Wilson based his fig- ures on the men engaged in picked mining, which they claimed produced only 40 per cent. or thereabouts of the annual production of goal, where- |. as machine mining produges the re mainder. But Secretary Wilson de be enough to enable them to meet the} cost of living or hundreds of thot- sands of men will be dissatisfied and the trouble in the coal fields is far from settled. It ‘must. not be forgotten that the miners themselves wanted a 40 per cent. increase in wages, but Sec- retary Wilson shaved that down to th per cent, and they stood willing to abandon other demands and agree ‘to a settlement The operators did not say flatly that they would agree, but they in- timated that if they didn’t have to absorb the entire wago increase) ‘but oduld charge the public a little|= | more for coal, it would protect them against declining ptices and high costs of WILSON ASSUMED THAT GAR- FIELD WOULD CONSENT. Secretary Wilson assumed that the Fuel Administrator, Dr. Garfield, . gharged by the Lever Act and the au- thority of the President to fix the selling price of coal, would increase that price He enough to furnish the incentive to production and a re sumption of work. Where was the beginning of a good feeling. A settlement seemed in sight. Happiness prevailed, as it ap- peared that the big coal strike would be settled. But of a sudden Dr. Garfield en- ‘tered the controversy with a line of argument totally new to both op- he construed his powers as suf- ficient to set wages becausé it was a factor in the cost of productian. ‘The Cabinet differed with him. Lengthy debate ensued. Finally Dr. the Government appearg, with the power to fix wages, - ' ” There is the. best of feeling be- tween Secretary Wilson and Dr. Gar- fold. But the one believes the pro- 14 pet cent. will Jeaye bun- dreds of thousands of atong us best they can for bes erg that ‘the general public should not be required to pay any more for coal. To the idea that the public’ shan not be further burdened with costs there is @ general agreement, but there is also no question that the whole situation ts a confession of the Government's inability to reduce the entire cost of living beyond the re moval of préfiteering. BASIC FACTORS OF DISPUTE REMAIN THE SAME. The basic factors remain the same. 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